On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 4:43 PM, <mario.limoncie...@dell.com> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Sedat Dilek [mailto:sedat.di...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, July 9, 2018 9:41 AM >> To: Limonciello, Mario >> Cc: p...@hungry.com; da...@debian.org; a...@debian.org; >> iucul...@debian.org; pkg-dkms-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org; debian- >> ker...@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: dkms: Build with an alternative like compiler rather than gcc >> >> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 4:37 PM, <mario.limoncie...@dell.com> wrote: >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: Petter Reinholdtsen [mailto:p...@hungry.com] >> >> Sent: Monday, July 9, 2018 9:32 AM >> >> To: sedat.di...@gmail.com; David Paleino; Aron Xu; Limonciello, Mario; >> Giuseppe >> >> Iuculano >> >> Cc: Dynamic Kernel Modules Support Team; debian-kernel@lists.debian.org >> >> Subject: Re: dkms: Build with an alternative like compiler rather than gcc >> >> >> >> >> >> [Sedat Dilek] >> >> > As a workaround I have symlinked my mycompiler wrapper-script to >> >> > /usr/bin/gcc. That works. >> >> > >> >> > What is the recommended way to do this correctly? >> >> >> >> Perhaps you should use dpkg-divert to ensure your replaced gcc is not >> >> lost in a future package upgrade? >> >> >> >> The DKMS team in Debian need active members. I'm not one of them. :( >> >> >> >> -- >> > >> > I think this is an upstream problem not at all specific to Debian's >> > implementation. >> > I would recommend to bring this discussion upstream to get it fixed there. >> > >> > I believe DKMS unsets CC before starting build, but maybe that's wrong to >> > do >> > in this instance. >> > >> >> Personally, I do not think it is an upstream problem. >> Unsetting CC before DKMS starts the build would explain the >> behaviour/handling. >> >
[ Removing wrong debian's dkms maintainer list ] > How exactly does clang get used by kernel build? It's by setting CC variable > right? > You can try to remove this line to see if it fixes the problem (it should). > https://github.com/dell/dkms/blob/master/dkms#L3515 > I have an own script which uses bindeb-pkg make-target from Linus tree. OK, that line looks like the culprit. Anyway, I need a flexible handling when using different compilers - for me. > The question would be where that variable should be ignored and where it > shouldn't. > Which I believe is an upstream discussion not a Debian discussion. I agree. - sed@ -